Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . The only peculiarity I can discern between this and theshoes of a much later age, is the curious attempt at acalkin, which is here formed by the iron having beendrawn to a point and bent forward on the ground face ofthe shoe. This specimen is extremely clumsy and heavy,and quite unlike the light, and we might almost sayelegant, shoe hitherto found. Figures 95 and 96 are similar to 92. It is impossible to account for the presence of theseunusual specimens with Roman remains. Mr Roach CIRENCESTER AND PEFENSEY. 259 Smith in
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . The only peculiarity I can discern between this and theshoes of a much later age, is the curious attempt at acalkin, which is here formed by the iron having beendrawn to a point and bent forward on the ground face ofthe shoe. This specimen is extremely clumsy and heavy,and quite unlike the light, and we might almost sayelegant, shoe hitherto found. Figures 95 and 96 are similar to 92. It is impossible to account for the presence of theseunusual specimens with Roman remains. Mr Roach CIRENCESTER AND PEFENSEY. 259 Smith informs me that the discov^ery of the villa was, ofcourse, accidental, and the excavations were not carefully-conducted by any one likely to note the position of thearticles found. If such be the fact, there is a probabilitythat these shoes may have belonged to a much later datethan the other relics discovered, and which they in alllikelihood overlaid. It is necessary to mention, however, that at Cirences-ter (the Roman Corinium, the Corimon of Ptolemy, andthe Duro-Corno
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